It turns out I have been sick all week long and I’m still sick. I am sick of being sick! I haven’t been getting a lot of uninterrupted rest and everyone in our family has gotten sick, so it’s been hard to recover from what I’ve got. I feel better now than I did on Monday and Tuesday, but the sad thing is my ‘feeling better’ is what I would normally consider sick enough to stay home. My head is still stuffed up and I’m coughing a lot, but I don’t have the chills and aches and pains I had earlier this week.
Lynae didn’t sleep well on Monday night. I tried sleeping with her on our reclining chair. I thought if she was elevated it might help with her breathing, but it just got worse throughout the night. Finally we took her into the hospital early Tuesday morning. It turns out she had croup and they gave her oxygen and corticosteriod to loosen things up in her throat and lungs to help her breathe easier. She’s much better now. I am very thankful for hospitals and modern medicine. A hundred years ago, babies could very likely die from croup.
I will be so glad when we’re all finished being sick. Hopefully that will be very soon!
Praying for you & yours, Carol.
croup is nasty! whatever is going around is a doozy. we were taken OUT for a couple of weeks. All of us for at least one day each just laid around with fever, body ache and extreme tiredness. It was a hard day on elishah. She just laid around, or slept. There were times we were pretty worried.
Hope things are better now.
we haven’t caught the latest bug, and am hoping we won’t! Daniel was out of commission for like, a month! He got croup for the second time, and near the end there, after it had cleared up, it was sounding like it was coming back, i was like, if he gets croup AGAIN, I’m outta here.
He didn’t get it, hence why I’m still here 😉
Feel for you, hoping you’re ALL better very soon!
love ya
I truly hope you are all back to health now. I hadn’t checked your blog in ages, so it was nice to see a bunch of new posts, even though it was because you were sick!
I agree, you should blog more, (coming from a non-blogger, I’m not sure how much weight that holds!)